Spyke
lemmy.world

Reminds me of all those cut aways my dad had posted up in his shot of medieval castles and ships. They always had one guy pooping somewhere. Instinctively looked for the guy pooping in this one.

21

Hell yeah. I remember we had these books when we were kids. I loved to just look and see the inner workings of the machines and vehicles used in Star Wars.

I think we had three of them, one or two for the prequels, and one or two for the originals, but I don't remember for sure.

15
programming.dev

I remember this page from a book I had growing up. What’s neat is the UCS Lego set of this has the blue seats. I forgot about this cutaway so I was wondering why they chose blue. Now it makes sense.

9

Playing the pen and paper rpg in the 90s, we had a lot of those books. Weaponry, vehicles etc, they were soooo good

3

The scale seems off. I remember these things being much larger compared to the height of a human.

7

Sorry I know the resolution for the text isn’t great. If this was a book in my collection I’d had take a few close up shots. But the art was too good not to share.

1
feddit.de

How exactly would the troopers be deployed on the battlefield?

4

They rappel down.
Please don't ask how they get the speeder bikes out of the garage.

4

That depends. In games, usually the Troops rappel down.

When it comes to the speeders, they either fly out and glide down or the AT-AT might be capable of "sitting down" like a horse/camel.

2
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Yes, this is awesome.

Anyone know the source? Are there different editions/prints to worry about if one were to go looking for the book(s) themselves?

3
SSTFreply
lemmy.world

It’s from the Star Wars Incredible Cross Sections book. The original (Millenium Falcon in the cover) or this updated version.

I probably should have put that in the thread opening. I am realizing I’m quite bad at this internet threading.

3

It’s donated to the Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center.

6

What about all the skinny maintenance sections you crawl through in fallen order?

3

Theres a dedicated fan called Adywan whose made his own special edition version of the trilogy tastefully adding more effects.

Here's a clip from his version of the Hoth battle where he incorporates the side panel revealing troops inside. (Yes I know the aspect ratio is wrong, not my clip. 😁)

3

Yes the cutaway style is great. I wish I had the full book because I know it has tons of different entries.

1
sh.itjust.works

It's too heavy for repulsor lifts? What do the spaceships use then? Why don't at-ats use that technology then?

1
SSTFreply
lemmy.world

Whenever you notice something like that, a space wizard did it.

6

"A powerful reactor provides the raw energy to move this weighty battle machine"

7 trillion moving parts are suddenly the better solution?

How do they move these things from planet to planet?

1

You reached the end